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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Pentatomomorpha » Pentatomoidea » Stink Bugs (Pentatomidae) » Predatory Stink Bugs (Asopinae) » Andrallus » Andrallus spinidens

Species Andrallus spinidens

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Range · Habitat · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · Print References · Works Cited
Andrallus spinidens - female Predatory Stink Bug - Andrallus spinidens Andrallus sp. in central Florida? - Andrallus spinidens Stink Bug sp. - Andrallus spinidens - female Andrallus spinidens? - Andrallus spinidens Andrallus spinidens?? - Andrallus spinidens Andrallus spinidens Andrallus spinidens
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)
Suborder Heteroptera (True Bugs)
Infraorder Pentatomomorpha
Superfamily Pentatomoidea
Family Pentatomidae (Stink Bugs)
Subfamily Asopinae (Predatory Stink Bugs)
Genus Andrallus
Species spinidens (Andrallus spinidens)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Apateticus ludovicianus Stoner 1917
Explanation of Names
Andrallus spinidens (Fabricius 1787)
Range
native to the Old World, now cosmopolitan in warmer regions; established in FL, reported from LA, TX & OK(1)(2)(Mead & Eger 1992)
Habitat
associated with rice paddies
Food
non-specific predator of Lepidoptera larvae (Manley 1982)
Life Cycle
Final instar nymph:
Remarks
the earliest record for the US was the paper by Stoner (1917)
There are 3 TX records in the TAMUIC, 2 historical specimens from College Station from 1930 (suggesting that it didn't become established), and one slightly more recent record from 1977 from an adjacent county.(3)
Mead & Eger (1992) examined a single LA spmn from 1975.
The OK record is dubious given that it was only reported during an ambitious all arthropod taxa survey of Ft. Sill by out-of-state entomologists.(1) There's no separate report of this insect from in-state entomologists.(4)
More recent records from iNat & BG suggest establishment along the Gulf Coast (5)
Print References
Hall D.G. (1988) Insects and mites associated with sugarcane in Florida. Fla. Entomol. 71: 138-150.
Manley G.V. (1982) Biology and life history of the rice field predator Andrallus spinidens F. (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae). Ent. News 93: 19-24.
Mead F.W., Eger J.E. (1992) The predatory stink bug, Andrallus spinidens (Fabricius) in Florida. Attached to Tri-ology Technical Report 31(3) (Full text)
Stoner D. (1917) A new species of Apateticus from Louisiana (Hem., Het.). Ent. News 28: 462-463. (Full text)
Works Cited
1.Insects of Western North America: Survey of Selected Arthropod Taxa of Fort Sill, Comanche County, Oklahoma.
Kondratieff, B.C. et al. 2004. C.P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity, Colorado State University, Fort Collins.
2.Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs of Canada and the Continental United States
Thomas J. Henry, Richard C. Froeschner. 1988. Brill Academic Publishers.
3.Texas A&M University Insect Collection (TAMUIC)
4.Checklists of Spiders, Mites, and Insects of Oklahoma
5.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Contributed by drswanny on 20 October, 2012 - 9:56pm
Additional contributions by Andrew Meeds, Mike Quinn, Robert Lord Zimlich, v belov
Last updated 15 October, 2023 - 10:03am

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